The idea of code golf (in any language, including Perl) is to show that YOU understand the fine details of the language. Making others do that for you is stupid cheating. Stupid because you don't learn anything. Golf works like general programming: You learn the language and the details, and combine the building blocks to a program. But unlike other programming activities, you don't optimize for cost, speed, or memory size, but only for code size. In the field of perl golf, there are some strange building blocks, most of them can be found by searching the monasty for the word "golf".

I could visit any great or not so great artist, make him or her create a piece of art for me, and pretend that it was my work. Would that make me an artist or a fool?

Spamming the monasty and my inbox with stupid golf improvement requests definitively does not make you an artist or a golf pro.

Alexander